The Losses of Our Lives
SkyLight Paths Publishing,US (Verlag)
978-1-59473-271-3 (ISBN)
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Most books on loss focus on the "big" losses (death, illness, divorce) or on specific losses (relationships, jobs, pets, memory loss, financial loss). Going beyond loss as a problem to be resolved, a grief to be worked through, Dr. Copeland-Payton reframes loss from the perspective that our everyday losses help us learn what we need to handle the major losses. Weaving in spiritual and archetypal themes, personal and scriptural story, the author poses that by becoming aware of what our lesser losses have to teach us, the larger losses of our lives become not so terrifying.
"When we intentionally enter into our everyday walk through small losses, the terrain of larger loss and the valley of the shadow of death is not totally unknown. It is not completely unfamiliar, alien, terrifying, for we have walked some of this way before with our lesser losses. We can journey through this valley of loss, for journey through it we must. And we can emerge markedly changed, but alive, on the other side."
Not since Judith Viorst's classic book Necessary Losses has there been such a significant exploration of ordinary losses, especially from a spiritual perspective. An especially valuable book for people in transition, and for spiritual counsellors and therapists.
Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton is a spiritual director and ordained clergywoman in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She is author of The Losses of Our Lives: The Sacred Gifts of Renewal in Everyday Loss. A pastor, hospital chaplain and physician who practiced medicine for twenty years, she now leads retreats at church centers, monasteries and with church groups to help people explore their experiences of loss.
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 The Human Tapestry
Spiritual Practice: Breath Prayer
Exploring Deeper
2 Birth Pangs and Passages
Spiritual Practice: Walking Meditation
Exploring Deeper
3 Awakening: Patterns of Gift and Loss
Spiritual Practice: Examen
Exploring Deeper
4 Things and Places
Spiritual Practice: Sand Mandala
Exploring Deeper
5 The Ebb and Flow of Relationships
Spiritual Practice: Labyrinth
Exploring Deeper
6 Relationships That Unravel and Tear Apart
Spiritual Practice: Accompaniment
Exploring Deeper
7 When Foundations Shake and Crumble
Spiritual Practice: Lectio Divina
Exploring Deeper
8 The Passing of Time: Our Final Loss … and Gift
Spiritual Practice: Guided Meditation
Exploring Deeper
Epilogue
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.2.2011 |
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| Verlagsort | Woodstock |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59473-271-X / 159473271X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59473-271-3 / 9781594732713 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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